A suicide bomber drove a truck filled with explosives into a Georgian base in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand and detonated it, killing 7 and injuring 9. The attack raised the death toll of Georgian soldiers serving in the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan to 30.

3 Georgian soldiers were killed in a similar attack in May also in Helmand province. Georgia’s defense ministry said 1,500 troops were stationed there, the largest number a non-NATO country has sent to the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan. Taliban insurgents claimed responsibility for the truck-bomb